The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.